One of the greatest astronomical discoveries was the physical detection of gravitational waves emanating from merging black holes in far-off galaxies. Predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 as a consequence of his Special and General Theories of Relativity and deduced in 1974 through studies of orbiting pulsar stars, they never were recorded directly until Sept. 14, 2015.
The latest announcement of gravitational wave discoveries came on Sept. 27, a detection made on Aug. 14 by the twin Laser